{"id":814,"date":"2009-05-01T09:13:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=814"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:20","slug":"am-i-more-at-risk-of-swine-flu-because-i-am-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/814","title":{"rendered":"Am I more at risk of swine flu because I am HIV-positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>This is a subject that is changing daily. Currently cases are low and the hope is that this particular &#8216;flu virus does not spread further.<\/p>\n<p>HIV-positive are generally only at a higher risk from flu if their CD4 count is low. If you and you partner have CD4 counts over 350 and certainly if over 500, this is considered a &#8216;normal&#8217; level and so risk are similar.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is recommend for HIV-positive people to have a flu vaccination each year, this will not offer protection against the new version of swine flu.<\/p>\n<p>If cases remain low and this virus is contained you shouldn&#8217;t worry, but routine precautions against catching flu will limit your chance of catching any virus.<\/p>\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a flight attendant on international flights and I am HIV-positive as is my partner. I am not on meds, He is on Sustiva+Truvada.<\/p>\n<p>My question is am I more at risk of getting Swine flu because of my HIV status and if so would it be worse, I also fear I may pick it up and pass it onto my partner. We have both had flu jabs last November.<\/p>\n<p>I travel to all the affected areas, although I am not due to go to the states again until the end of may. any advice you can give will be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your time and this excellent resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}